Thread: on the replacement for the perenties

LR must have been nuts not to have fought for the Aussie contract let alone the British contract. But we have come to expect that from the morons running LR over the last few years.
The Bushmaster however is a wicked truck. We were looking at one for a rapid bush fire deployment unit. But a bit too aggressive and under water capacity for what we want. Would be nice though. BIL also went to look at them for forestry in the SW of WA. SA are using 14 of them as fire vehicles I believe.
FireKing

Its a shame , that Land rovers wont be part of our military anynore. I remember trudging around the bush in the back of a perentie in my "cadet" years and later in my army reserve days. I have brain washed my kids into landy's and its a real dissapointment to think that not only will the Aust Government let them go but the new shape that will be released will be so different to the existing 110's etc it will be a legend that only we will remember. Sad , real sad but i suppose its progress.
John

The treatment they got from the ADF over the current range of landies was enough to encourage them to wipe their hands of it.

Pray tell? Was it the usual particularly stringent standards and last-minute changes and all the rest?

paraphrasing.

after ADF trialed the demo vehicles they decided they liked em, but not the price approved a list of things to change to make them cheaper and then after delivery complained about the fact that the vehicle is now not as capable as it was.

then its the usual warrenty clause wording stuff that happens everywhere.

coupled with the different owner of the landrover group and the potential changeover sale the trend was away from "sheds that work" to "go fast luxury yachts that look pretty and will hardly use the awsome capability"

So, yes, the usual rubbish.

And your last line pretty much sums it up.

For those that get a copy, the latest Australian Defence Magazine (ADM) has an article on Project Overlander - which includes the Land Rover replacement.

There's a couple of nice pics of the 4x4 & 6x6 GWagon utes doing the rounds at Monegetta proving grounds. Also a pic of the LRPV replacement.... although I suspect it's a company pic.

I'll grab a copy for Phoenix.

Cheers,

Pete

A few of the new supercat 400's have turned up in perth. The SASR guys are pretty happy with them so far - very quiet aparently and 650Nm @ 1500 rpm!


more info here:
http://www.supacat.com/supacat_products_hmt400.htm

Can they fit in a helo?. Pat